Chapter Nine
Blue is the Warmest Color
There are no Hallmark cards that define the next chapter, or the value of a history together.
- Brad Pitt
KAT
Dayton, Tennessee
Nine years ago
We were out. We were finally out.
After spraying painting Dudley Duncan’s stable horses. A second time for Crook of the Decade, Mr. Ethan Riske, after his first phony show of innocence to the deputy and sheriff.
My hands gripped the steering wheel hard. Drops of sweat dripped from my neck to my bare shoulders and I could feel every single sliver of perspiration running a path across my body, could sense every bead. I was sure I could taste the salt on my skin, and I was breathing so hard in the confines of the now mud-stained car that I thought I might pass out from the exhaustion, but we did it.
We
